Apparatus for massaging the eyes



l. ROGER.

APPARATUS FOR MASSAGING THE EYES.

' APPLICATION man AUG.30, 1917.

1,346,724. Patented July 1.339% A I Fig.1

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH ROGER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR MASSAGING THE EYES.

T 0 all whom it'mag concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr ROGER, a citizen of the French Republic,residing at No. 39 Rue Marboeuf, Paris, France, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Massaging. the Eyes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved apparatus formassaging the eyeballs for the purpose of curing certain errors ofrefraction. The improved apparatus has been specially designed to effeet the requisite operations upon the patient with great convenience,extreme accuracy and with great efficacity.

An embodiment of this invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view'of the general arrangement of theapparatus, and

Fig. 2 is a detail view in section on the line A-B of Fig. 1,illustrating the construction of one of the eye-pad supporting tubes.

As shown, the improved apparatus comprises as its essential parts foreffecting ocular massage, two eye-pads adapted to ex ert the necessarypressure upon the eyeballs. In the improved apparatus according to thisinvention these eye-pads 1 consist of blocks of rubber. The rear portionof these eyepads is made of hemispherical shape (as shown in Fig. 2),whereas the forward portion is slightly flattened over an areaequivalent to the dimensions of the iris. A rib 2 extending around thepad 1 is provided between the hemispherical and flattened portions.

Each eye-pad 1 is held in a cap 3 in which the hemispherical portion ofthe eye-pad is located. 4: is a washer adapted to be screwed upon thesaid cap for the purpose of fixing the eye-pad in its lodgment. The rib2 engages in a groove formed in the cap and in the washer, and serves asa register mark for placing the eye-pads correctly inposition.

Each cap 3 is mounted on an externally screw-threaded stem 5 adapted tobe screwed in a tube 6 which in its turn is adapted to be slid with aslight friction in a tube 7. This method of mounting the partsallows ofadjusting the positions of the eye-pad caps independently of each other,by screwing the stem 5 more or less in its tube 6.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1920.

Application filed August 30, 1917. Serial No. 188,923.

The tubes 7 are fixed to slide blocks 8 adapted to slide along thetransverse frame 9 that serves to support the several parts of theapparatus.

As shown in Fig. 1, the transverse frame 9 forms a sort of very wide oropen dihedral angle, so that the tubes 7 which are located at rightangles to the sides of this dihedral angle, will thereby be caused toconverge slightly at their ends on the side of the eyepads 1.

10 are coiled springs located in the usual manner in the tubes 7 thesesprings bear at one end against the rear end of the respective tube 6,and at their other end against the front face of the cross-head 11.

' The cross-head 11 is fixed on a tube 12 adapted to slide freely on arod or tube 13 fixed to the middle of the transverse frame 9. Thetube 12carries at its rear end a handle 14: shaped preferably as a bow as shownin the drawing. This handle is made sufficiently large to allow theoperator to insert several of his fingers therein, for the purpose ofproducing the movement of the eye-pads 1 during the operation of theapparatus. The cross-head 11 moves with it the tube 6 when no resistanceis opposed to the movement of these tubes. When however the eye-pads 1are prevented from moving, the cross-head 11 is capable of slidingwithout moving the tube 6 with it, the springs 10 being then compressed.

The tube 12 is made relatively long in order to relieve the operator ofthe fatigue which he would otherwise experience in standing whiletreating children with an apparatus fitted with a short tube 12.

The transverse frame 9 is provided at its center on the side opposite towhere the rod or tube 13 is located, with a block 15 between the sidesof which there is pivoted at 17 a nasal support or nose-piece 16. Thejoint 17 of this nose-piece is designed in such a manner as to allow thesaid nosepiece to adapt itself freely to the nose of the patientirrespectively of the shape of that organ.

To the ends of the transverse frame 9 there are fixed side bars 18terminating in curved portions similar to the hooked side bars ofcertain spectacles. The side bars 18 are intended to be looped over theears of the patient in the same way as the side bars of a pair ofspectacles.

Acu ved member .19 is fixed at one end to the center of the transverseframe 9; it terminates at its free end in a pad 20 designed to bearagainst the back of the head of the patient and thus help in maintainingthe apparatus in place during the treatment.

21 is a handle for enabling the apparatus to be held by the operator; itis fixed by any suitable means to the middle of the V from said framefor bearing against the nose of the patient, eye pads for massaging theeyeballs of the patient, supports for said eye pads slidable in saidframe, a common crosshead slidable in said eye pad supports, a springbetween an abutment in each eye pad support and an abutment in saidcrosshead, a handle attached to said crosshead to enable the operator tooperate same, and a handle attached to said transverse frame to enablethe operator to hold the apparatus in position.

2. In an apparatus for massaging the eyes, the combination ofran eye padof elastic material and of hemispherical form,

with a flattened front surface corresponding in area and location withthe iris of the eye, a cap inolosing approximately. the rearhemispherical half of said eye pad, an annular rib on said eye pad, anda ring screw- 1 ing on the front edge of said cap, engaging said rib, onsaid eye pad.

3. In an apparatus for massaging the eyes, the combination of atransverse frame having its front face formed in the shape of'a veryWide or open dihedral angle, and relatively adjustable eye padsupportsextending at right angles from the sides of said dihedral angular face,whereby said eye pad supportsare caused to converge slightly upon theeyes of the patient.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in theof two subscribing witnesses. V 1

' J OSEEH ROGER.

WVitnesses CHAS. P. PREssLY, MIGUEL ZEROL.

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